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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth  Zits   Reply All  
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Ms Boods posted:I don't know why I ever question anything about this shite, but who on earth locks up the children's summer toys til early July?* Don't US school kids get finished in May/June? (depending on the school, I guess -- mine finished in late May/first week of June). The kids don't finish the school yeat til mid/late July, but I've seen plenty of them out playing on skateboards and scooters and stuff during half-terms and Easter break prior to then. Who sunbathes on their lawn, anyway?
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Jul 9, 2017 00:33
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Jul 9, 2017 00:37
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Say Nothing posted:Who sunbathes on their lawn, anyway? Plenty of people? That strip is poo poo but I'm willing to give them a pass on that particular thing, except for the fact that it's only in the strip for stupid cheesecake reasons. But sunbathing in one's lawn isn't exactly uncommon. If you're not super convenient to a beach, or only have a little bit of free time and want to get tan, where else would you go? Most people probably don't listen to a bunch of outdated music, though.
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Jul 9, 2017 01:16
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Heathcliff Piranha Club  Dick Tracy  Judge Parker  9 Chickweed Lane 
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Jul 9, 2017 02:04
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Does 9 Chickweed Lane actually run in newspapers? Does anyone actually like it? It's so god drat bad that I'm almost fascinated by how poorly done it is.
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Jul 9, 2017 02:19
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FrumpleOrz posted:Does 9 Chickweed Lane actually run in newspapers? Does anyone actually like it? It's so god drat bad that I'm almost fascinated by how poorly done it is. Last I heard, it was in two of them and I want to say one of them was the LA Times for some bizarre reason. I don't know what the count is now. It definitely used to run in a bunch of papers in the past; certainly the Dallas Morning News in the early 2000s, for example.
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Jul 9, 2017 03:11
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FrumpleOrz posted:Does 9 Chickweed Lane actually run in newspapers? Does anyone actually like it? It's so god drat bad that I'm almost fascinated by how poorly done it is. The Classic Dinette Set owns a piece of history.  Working Daze is a flusher.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix is two for the price of one. 
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Jul 9, 2017 03:57
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Yeah, 9CWL is still in the L.A. Times, but I don't think they run the Sunday strips though. The last time I checked, I could only find a handful of papers that had it in the physical edition (well, the online e-edition replicas of those papers). If you want to try a test to see how popular a comic is, try running a search of it on Pressreader.com. It will give you the results from the newspapers that it carries, so you can get a feel of the true number from there.
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Jul 9, 2017 04:54
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Evil Mastermind posted:I know it used to have a big following who called Brooke the "Worshipful Master" and defended the strip from the mean ol' trolls who dared to suggest that he wasn't a very good writer. I don't know what happened to them after Brooke shut down the comments on GoComics. It was "Honorable Master." I'm ashamed that I remember that from whatever iteration of the thread it was when we found that. Moomin on the Riviera Page 6 
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Jul 9, 2017 06:27
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Julet Esqu posted:Don't lie. You saw no such thing. Kids don't like dangerous hobbies. Busted!  Well, then, here's something I do know a little about cos in a past life I used to teach a module on the history of pop music, and Ripley's left out the good part: Darthemed posted:
The plan was to use the teleharmonium to provide piped in music to hotels and dance-rooms from a distance, mainly because the instrument was not portable by any stretch of the imagination (the first one weighed 7 tons; the next model weighed about 200 tons). It was cobbled together using parts from a telephone switchboard, because when it was invented in the 1890s, the only means to electric amplification were telephones -- this is long before the days of electric recording and playback (and before the days even of Johnson's perfected mechanical gramophones and Victrolas.) It's also the age before valves (or vacuum tubes), so it was a hell of a drain on the local power supply to get this thing working. It was as if P D Q Bach actually saw his pandemonium realised. That said, because the instrument used telephone switchboard keys to make each note, it could play only one note at a time. And it needed other phones to be able to listen to it -- so matey (it was invented by Thaddeus Cahill), commandeered the phone system in his part of New York City. There were some public performances, but it was mostly a novelty thing -- read the Wikipedia article linked below for how they got the thing to work! This was not a by-choice streaming service for teleharmonium fans: he brought East side business to a screaming halt, because people picked up the phones to hear this guy playing away on this mad instrument. Eventually a group of angry folks broke into the warehouse where the original instrument was housed, busted it up, and tossed the bits into the East River. Cahill built others, but ended up scrapping them as they just could not reach the commercial potential envisioned -- ballrooms in Boston, for example, having teleharmonium music phoned in from New York, &c. More about it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telharmonium More detailed article http://synthmuseum.com/magazine/0102jw.html There are no contemporary recordings, but this documentary has a recreated one, and starts out with what the original instrument would have sounded like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunkjJvbrHs Enjoy!
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Jul 9, 2017 09:22
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Say Nothing posted:Who sunbathes on their lawn, anyway? Soz double post -- just Gilchrist showing his age again; I remember my sister and her friends doing so back in the late 60s, when we lived in a typical surburan housing development.
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Jul 9, 2017 09:23
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sexy Dustin fan service strip
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Jul 9, 2017 10:59
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Intelligent Life Take It From the Tinkersons  random Dark Side of the Horse  Viivi & Wagner 
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Jul 9, 2017 11:02
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Nancy Mandrake  Mirros don't work that way, buddy.  
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Jul 9, 2017 12:52
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Arlo and Janis Arlo and Janis Classic (August 25, 1995)  Garfield Classic (August 25, 1985) 
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Jul 9, 2017 12:59
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Kennel posted:Nancy
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Jul 9, 2017 13:15
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Gilchrist's Nancy is a loving tragedy
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Jul 9, 2017 13:17
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Johnny Walker posted:
This storyline prompted me to email an old friend. Thanks, Beatty.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Classic (August 25, 1995) 
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Jul 9, 2017 13:49
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Family Circus Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert  Foxtrot 
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Jul 9, 2017 14:55
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Manuel Calavera posted:Compu-Toon Man let's all take a minute to appreciate the keypad kid
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Jul 9, 2017 15:02
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dismas posted:Man let's all take a minute to appreciate the keypad kid You almost got me to go like the Keypad Kid Project on Facebook, but the account doesn't seem to have posted anything in nearly 2 years.
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Jul 9, 2017 15:26
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Mountaineer posted:You almost got me to go like the Keypad Kid Project on Facebook, but the account doesn't seem to have posted anything in nearly 2 years. boyce come back to us
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Jul 9, 2017 15:40
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I imagine he retired the Keypad Kid's nemesis, the Rotary Phone Rogue around 2005
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Jul 9, 2017 15:41
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Calaveron posted:I imagine he retired the Keypad Kid's nemesis, the Rotary Phone Rogue around 2005 They both outlasted his earlier character, the Telegraph Twerp.
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Jul 9, 2017 16:09
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BC  Phoebe   Baldo   Wizard of Id   Big Nate   some random Wallace the Brave    Curtis   Baby Blues  
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Jul 9, 2017 17:00
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Manuel Calavera posted:Foxtrot 
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Jul 9, 2017 17:59
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Not sure if this was posted or not, but if you ever wanna read up on the kaiju and anime opinions of the current Sally Forth team, do I have the link for you! http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-07-05/interview-sally-forth-creative-team-talk-anime-kaiju-in-latest-arc/.118183 Also yo Ripley's, you just used a variation of that fact about Charles Darwin's tortoise like last week.
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Flash Gordon 2001 Joey Wilson        e: quote:Keefe: Not at all. Readers of our strip share the same love of kaiju, anime and manga as the Forth family has. And, as a side note, I wrote and drew the Flash Gordon comic strip for a number of years, so I've been itching to put some monsters back in the Sunday comics for a while now. Francesco knows he always has that in his back pocket regarding storylines if need be… Haifisch fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Jul 9, 2017 |
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Jul 9, 2017 18:14
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Instead of just complaining about 9 Chickweed Lane, I figured I could start posting some comics myself! Shoe  The Lockhorns  Bound & Gagged  Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!  On The Fastrack  Mother Goose & Grimm  Hagar The Horrible 
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Jul 9, 2017 18:15
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FrumpleOrz posted:Instead of just complaining about 9 Chickweed Lane, I figured I could start posting some comics myself! I think we'd rather you just limit yourself to complaining about 9CL
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Jul 9, 2017 19:33
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Jesus, The Lockhorns is still going? How long can you milk "this married couple hates each other"? fake edit: apparently since 1968.
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Jul 9, 2017 19:40
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Calaveron posted:I think we'd rather you just limit yourself to complaining about 9CL We'll all suffer through this together!
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Jul 9, 2017 20:05
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If you're gonna post Fast Track, include the other comic Holbrook does too. The name of which I forget.
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Manuel Calavera posted:If you're gonna post Fast Track, include the other comic Holbrook does too. The name of which I forget. Safe Havens? Sure thing! EDIT: Here's yesterday's of that. I guess it doesn't update on Sundays. 
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Jul 9, 2017 21:07
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FrumpleOrz posted:comix Anyone know who started this twitter account? I'm assuming it's just a bot scraping pages. https://twitter.com/GoonComics  And He Did. (October, 1916)  Outbursts of Everett True (January, 1917)  Doings of the Duffs. (October, 1918, click for big)  The Gay Thirties (October, 1935, click for big))  They'll Do It Every Time (September, 1940, click for big)  Mopsy (March, 1941)  Archie (March, 1956, click for big)  Tweedy (November, 1956, click for big)  Feiffer (1974, click for big)  Andy Capp (December, 1971, click for big)  Wee Pals (January, 1972, click for big)  Dick Tracy (October, 2001, click for big) 
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Jul 9, 2017 21:09
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I suddenly have this suspicion that Locher was giving the finger to readers who complained about his pacing.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Hagar The Horrible Cameo of?
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